Show L' L L cr o 4 I. I r FIC Carolyn Wells All J at t T 1927 BYNEA SERVICE INe t H r. WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Garrett Garrett Folsom is stabbed to death while swimming at Ocean Town N. N J. J It is believed that the death death weapon was a an oriental knife and that it was pur- pur cha ed on the boardwalk athing companions had been Roger Neville a business partner part part- ner Mrs Helen Barnaby and Carmelita Car Car- melita Valdon Anastasia Folsom eccentric and masterful sIster of the dead man takes command and it is established that one don Croydon Sears is a fancier of curious weapons Sears Scars an architect to work worl on the case casc Dan Pelton Folsom's nephew arrives ar- ar arrives rives and is ij by br the curiOus I- I French ench dolls doUs in his uncles uncle's rooms Cro Croydon don Sears sends for Stone famous detective He tells him Folsom Folsons had been blackmailing him and he had lied at the inquest but was Innocent Stone meets others ot of the circle including Ned Barron and his wife Madeline who puzzles him Robin Sears son Ion ot of Croydon is surprised when Stone mentions the dolls had owned NOW GO ON WITH TH THE E STORY CHAPTER Stone amuSed them all with with- his description of the doll that had to Garrett Folsom Its not so surprising said Sears with a twinkle in his eye A Aborn Aborn born will ivIll choose the strangest lines I 1 collect antique weapons another collects dolls doUs Im I'm not sure the dolls arent aren't more admirable At least they're less dangerous dangerous- Id like Uke to see those dolls Robin said Angel adores then them Well e 11 the lot bLare are among the finest They rhey must be imported I never saw any more beautiful ones ones-if one is fond of dolls Breakfast over and it beIng too early to expect to see Carmelita Valdon Stone went to the auction rooms A confab with the principals there brought about a more exhaustive exhaustive ex- ex Inquiry into the sales made the night before the murder ot of Garrett Folsom And it was vas pretty wen well established that as the auction drew to a close that night the att att somewhat somewhat some some- what hastily gathered odds and ends of wares into bU dies and sold them rapidly taking in most instances in- in st stances the first bid made This though done without the sanctiOn or of ll tle e proprietors was not u for thus the counters coun- coun tel's were cleared and the way made ready for next days day's enterprises Few ot of the could remember definitely the customers who had bought these bundles but at last one clerk came forward with witha a story of a man who had purchased purchased pur- pur chased I the very last one and since mon limen prefer blondes we might make a hit Do you think theres theresa a chance Please tell tellus us as we are anxious to know JUST 15 Of Course theres there's a chance Just 15 a big big- one but you'd oud spoil poll all your chances f real triumph llong artistic lines if you yon attempted to togO togo gO into professional stage 01 as young as no iare Oll Keep Keel fight ight on with your ambitions ambitIons u and make the most ot of every opportunity to appear in these amateur ances as a's that is splendid training Then you can take taie and musI s lessons so so- liu will have the the- foundation Most fost tant ot of all h weer er Is the trainIng of your our brain You might might make make a af f fair ir success st stage ge if you started out now but you could only gO so far and then you ou would have to take a second place in a cre theatre and those who had waited to start until the they had g ined an n education and real training uld gO go- gona on na ahead ot of you That Int YOU Want to look to so go to school and get as much as you Oll possibly can wIthout about doing other things until you are at least better 18 sun still a college college col- col lege graduate and then there is ig no height to which YOU you cannot climb 1 if you are talented More and more intellectuality is becoming rn In essential essential essen- essen ot of drama dramatic Uc work even In the amusing song sonk and dance act because because be- be cause it takes re ral brains to workout work worl out novelties to bring ones one's sell self just a d f f the theother theother other fellow in the comp Dear Miss liss Blair Will you please tell me the names of the presidents president's cabinet members I have fave no reference book from which to get this information Thank you T T. T Here they are are 1 T. T of state rank Frank B. B K g or the treasury treasury trea- trea sury Andrew Andre AndreV W. W Viell Mellon n of war Dwight ht 1 F. F Davis of the navy nary CUItis Curtis Cur Cur- D. D Wilbur or of the nt Hubert iu- iu bert Work of igi W. W M. M Jardine of cOmmerce Herbert Hoover or of labor James J J. J Davis attorney general John G. G Sargent postmaster general Harry S S. S New Kew Youre Youle welcome t I remember he said because the he t chap only bi bi 5 but I let iet him t take ake it partly to get rid of the last l lot ot and because the buyers had thinned out so I didn't think t there'd hered be another bid What did he look like Stone asked lie He had a white mustache That's aU all I remember especially He was j just an ordinary looking fellow not rich but not poor either Dont Don't remember remember re- re member his clothes at all but I couldn't help seeIng that white mustache mus- mus tache and I thought he was old But his voice didn't sound very pM mo more e like I didn't see hi his haIr he kept his hat on II lIp paid cash for his bundle and took it along along- with him DIdn't seem embarrassed or flustered just sort ot of quiet like fI and nd indifferent A collector No I dont don't think so But you cant can't tell teJI always A A. real collector is foxy and pretends he isn't a collector col col- col lector at all So you cant can't tell No o. o I suppose not Anti And this bundle bundIe bun bun- dIe dle this last sale h had d a in it Yes sir An old one with a out Worn velvet t. t scabbard just like Ine one toe the police pOllee have What else was in it Trash mostly Nothing Nothing- ot of the same ame era A Chinese ink holder and a Japanese Incense But not valuable or in good condition He paid all the lot was worth And you ou cant can't think of any other distinguishing trait he had Not one lIe was wa's ju jut t like one of a hundred guys who come in here every day It was only that white mustache that made him stick in n-i n my memory at all aU Hes the man Fleming Stone told himself as he left the shop and turned his steps back toward the Yet he had not entirely put the idea ot of Carmelita out of his consid- consid orations And Ana as he puzzled over it H it came to him that somebody had said the night before that se had human tools to work for herVas her Was Vas the man with the white white-mus- tache one or of these Had he bought the old weapon for Carmelitas Carmelita's use either ignorant ot of her purpose or thereOf thereat Who could he have been And where was vas any man with a white S ch a facial adornment was enough of a rarIty nowadays to tobe be conspicuous even cven among the hordes of people at Ocean Town And then it came caine to him hini A false mustache of course There is no easier simpler and yet more effective disguiSe than a false mustache particularly a noticeable no- no one Granting this then the disguise uise was intentional and th purchase was made the expectation of using the weapon for a murderous purpose So the man was not not- necessarily old probably not at all al so and the next step was to learn his identity Not an cas easy matter as as there therese se me to be nothing to go upon but that assumption of a false mus- mus tache But aside from aside from the dolls and the dagger it was the only material clue in sight and Fleming Fleming- Stone set to ork to make it- it yield up its secret As Ahe neared neared- the hotel ho he met Robin Sears 0 Hello said tIre the youth weve we found the man In the green bathing suit Who Vho Is he asked stone IlLs IUs name is hes he's a sturry old coot cool and he doesn't remember remember re- re member dad at all Cheerful outI out out- s I l ok Never Ne mind Ston told him ve e nice nce white while n he heto to work on on 1 0 Stone long the tow rd the Hotel la- la thinking d deeply ply Yet his a absorption lo In thought slid did not pIe I vent Sent ails is enjoyment nt of hiS hiS' surroundIngs surround surround- Ings hit he cared little for surf bathing the sights and sounds of the crowds of or merrymakers senses as a whole rather than in any detail The rolling chairs with their freight and th their lr varied types of interested inter inter- ested and amused him and he looked closely h sa saw saw- w. w It all as a huge moving huge mOVing Yet all th th time his reason was the n ase e in hand 6 11 Ie h l i not the doubt that th man witH the write mustache mustache mus- mus tache was wa a au gent agent for someone else dbl Wd that the was a But Why was tIre the man not a principal he asked Why not the murderer himself It If so It must have been one or of orthe the men already dy mixed up with the Ot Of- It might have b been en an entire stranger brit Stones experience ence ence led him to think that this was vas unlikely POl usually For usually a murderer Is soon or later shown to be acquainted acquaint acquaint- ed cd with his vIctim if only by the casual testimony or evidence of by- by and If-and and there was always the Garrett 1 h hd d 1 been murd murdered r d b by someone that i surviving ing friends and relatives l knew new I nothing of that fact must also be I proved But the immediate business i in hand for fOJ Stone was was-to prove that i Croydon Scars had nothing to do I with the crime aia 1 this necessitated ed cd the investigation or of all toward whom the fInger ot of suspicion pointed Ii Robins Robin's report that the man in the green bathing suit had been found must be looked into later At present pros pros- ent Stones Stone's thoughts centered on one Ci figure ure that ot of Carmelita Valdon I Just the ohe one for Cor the part the detective e pondered The right type lot fot a murderess an and proved already to hate ha had motive ana opportunity and It the white mustached chap was ras her she emissary had a away away way to get the w weapon apon Ho How She could Carry the knife Into the ocean Stone did not stop to think think For or he knew whoever killed F som HAD carried the knife Into the water and clearly clear clear- ly it would be easier for Cor A woman to conceal such a thing in her bathIng bathing bath bath- I Ing costume than for Cor a man In fact Stone thought that point scored heavily In fa favor VOl of a woman criminal For with the more or orless orless less elaborate SUitS the they wore nowadays nowadays now now- ample opportunity was offered of- of for the concealment of a knife while a man with his simple one or two piece suit had small chance to hide anything ot of the sort Reaching th th he found Mrs Valdon on the deck exquisItely exquisIte exquisIte- ly arrayed In a morning costume appropriate te for the beach To be continued Th There r is something Stone knows that Carmel Carmelita ita Valdan has not told and he is determined to get it from her |